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By Anatole Broyard ();

August 21, 1980,

, Section The Home Section, Page C17, Column , words

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YOU might say that Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn is a hero of Soviet dissidence and Norman Podhoretz is an antihero of American dissidence. While "The Present Danger," by Mr. Podhoretz, is a more temperate book than "The Mortal Danger," by Mr. Solzhenitsyn, it will probably meet with more resistance. Something in American life inclines us to listen to strangers.